cass lake

millions of dollars from casinosthat aboriginal people of minnesota wait to recoverfrom the deluded get rich quick dreamerswill never compare to what was lostfrom so-called new world ism conquest plunder genocide an official government sanctioned policy

the ojibwe still bleed from the bounty hunters

the land & lakes & wild ricenow stifled and commodified for the twenty-first century while a mother waitsfor a minimum wage jobat a traffic signal on so-called u.s. 2

the many hues of the indigenousis a continuum of the forest with historical wisdom spirit that can't be translatedimmersed in color from the strongest straightest tallest jack pine with bark that's rough resilient receptiveto the cries of traditiontribes and nations to be whole